Jack and Janet in Search of a Theory of Knowledge

(5) One can o f t en get money from PCs. In order to answer quest ions about c h i l d r e n ' s (G) The hard par t of g e t t i n g money from s t o r i e s one needs a great deal of "common a PR is g e t t i n g It o u t . Once tha t sense" knowledge. A model Is presented which Is done one can be sa id to have the gives a rough o rgan i za t i on to t h i s knowledge money. along w i t h s p e c i f i c a t i o n s as to how the (7) Shaking helps set money out of a PB. In fo rmat ion will be accessed. This rough model Is then used as a basis fo r tight So In order to understand a c h i l d r e n ' s arguments about narrow Issues ( p r i m a r i l y s t o r y we need a theory of every day using examples concerning piggy banks.) The knowledge. This theory would have to answer paper Is intended as an i l l u s t r a t i o n of how quest ions l i k e "What is the knowledge we one might go about c o n s t r u c t i n g a theory of have?" and "How Is It organized so we can get knowledge. at the necessary In fo rmat ion when It Is needed?" Note that t h i s l a t t e r quest Ion assumes tha t we have some s p e c i f i c task or Acknowledgements tasks In mind, in our case answering quest ions about c h i l d r e n ' s s t o r i e s . The res t of t h i s paper d i v ides i n to two This paper is based on por t ions of an KIT p a r t s . In the f i r s t par t a rough d e s c r i p t i o n Ph.D. t hes i s submit ted to the department of of a model of c h i l d r e n ' s s to ry comprehension E l e c t r i c a l Engineer ing. The thes i s Is w i l l be presented. In the second sec t ion we reproduced as Al Technical Report ,266, As In w i l l assume the model presented In the f i r s t my thes is I would l i k e to thank a l l the and look at some narrow quest ions concerning people at the MIT A r t i f i c i a l I n t e l l i g e n c e the o rgan i za t i on and content of our knowledge Laboratory who l i s t e n e d to and argued w i t h me about piggy banks, on many occasions. The work reported here in V/PS conducted at the A r t i f i c i a l I n t e l l i g e n c e Laboratory , a 2 A Model of Ch i l d ren ' s Story Comprehension, Massachusetts I n s t i t u t e of Technology research program supported in par t by the Advanced Research Pro jects Agency of the The model presented here Is s o l e l y Department of Defense and monitored by the concerned w i t h deduct ion and does not O f f i ce of Naval Research under Contract consider problems of na tu ra l language per se. Number N00014-70-A-0362-0003. In p a r t i c u l a r It does not deal w i t h syntax or those problems on the boundary between syntax and deduct ion l i k e d isambiguat ion of word